Tuesday, November 24, 2015

IT News Head Lines (HardOCP) 25/11/2015

Thermaltake Suppressor F31 Mid-Tower Chassis Review
If
you are looking for a new mid-tower ATX case that is easy on the eyes,
ears and wallet, make sure you read our evaluation of the Thermaltake
Suppressor F31.

Thermaltake is upping its computer
case game with the new Suppressor F31 chassis. It is nice and wide at
250mm and has plenty of features. "Leading-edge sound reduction panels
on all sides, expand your cooling options with removable panels for the
perfect balance in silent operation and cooling performance."

Fallout 4 Console Commands Can Break Your Saves?
Bethesda's
VP of marketing, responding to questions on Twitter, says that console
commands are not supported on the PC version of the game and that the
company has already seen save files that have been corrupted up by use
of console commands.

Dell Acknowledges Security Hole In New Laptops
What? You didn't order a security hole with your new laptop? That's okay, Dell gave you one anyway.

A
pre-installed program on some newly purchased Dell laptops that can
only be removed manually by consumers makes them vulnerable to cyber
intrusions that may allow hackers to read encrypted messages and
redirect browser traffic to spoofs of real websites such as Google or
those belonging to a bank, among other attacks.

What Should Yahoo Get Rid Of?
What was the first thing that popped into your head when you read that headline? CEO? That's what I thought too.

The
Sunnyvale, California-based Web giant lists roughly 60 products and
services in the US, but the portfolio is in such disarray that Yahoo
itself can't keep track of it. Clicking on some services, like Contacts,
yields a broken link. And there are links to other services, like
Profiles and Directory, that have already been shut down.

LifeLock Used To Electronically Track Woman
At first I was like "who uses LifeLock for anything?" Then I read this.

Imagine
you found out that your former spouse had opened a fake LifeLock credit
monitoring account in your name, and then used it to follow your every
financial move for two years? Then imagine that no one at LifeLock will
take your query seriously, even after the police get involved.

Windows 10 Adoption Will Be Faster Than Windows 7
Hey,
did you guys know that the professional guessers out there seem to
believe the adoption rate of Windows Free will be faster than all those
other version of Windows you had to pay for. ASTOUNDING!

Half
of all organisations will have commenced their Windows 10 rollout by
January 2017, putting it on track to be the most widely installed
version of Windows ever, according to Gartner. "For businesses, we
expect that implementation will be significantly more rapid than that
seen with Windows 7 six years ago."

SilverStone Tundra TD02-Lite
The review crew at NikKTech have the SilverStone Tundra TD02-Lite all-in-one cooler on the test bench today.

Nowadays
it almost feels that wherever I look I see manufacturers doing their
best to cover even the last person in the market with their products.
Take AIO liquid CPU coolers for example. As I type these lines in the
market there are numerous such models from a large number of
manufacturers not only with different length (120/140/240/280/360mm) and
thickness (25/27/30/32/38/43/45/49mm) radiators but also with different
type of tubes (rubber/FEP) and various performance pumps
(2400/2500/2600/2800/2900/3600/3800RPM).

Comcast Using Pop-Ups For Illegal File-Sharing Warnings?
What's next Comcast? Pop-up warnings for visiting porn sites? Don't be gross, you know what I meant.

Last
week, a developer and Comcast user posted the above screengrab to
GitHub, showing how Comcast is now injecting these warnings into
customer's web browsers when they believe that some sort of illegal
file-sharing may have occurred.

PAYDAY 2: An Apology
The
developers of Payday 2 have taken to the Steam forums to issue an
apology for all the headaches and hassles caused by the addition of
microtransactions to the game.

The past few weeks have
been some of the most challenging in the history of this community.
Players have been angry with us, media have written about us en masse
and our volunteer moderators went on strike. For all the distress we've
caused the past few weeks, I'd just like to take the time and say that
we're sorry. We've done a lot of things right in the past, but these
past few weeks we screwed up. We need to get better at many things, and
we will do our best to improve as soon as possible.